We analyze the fifth IPCC Report
In the city of Incheon, South Korea, between October 1 and 5, 2018, the 48th Session of the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the First Session of the Group were held. of Work I, II and III. In this meeting the Fifth Assessment Report of the [...]
The Stockholm Declaration, in way to the half century of the First Earth Summit GalleryThe Stockholm Declaration, in way to the half century of the First Earth Summit
Climate Change, COP and Climate Conferences, COP24 Katowice 2018, COP25 Chile 2019, Energy, Environment, Forest, Global Warming, Paris Agreement, Sustainability
The Stockholm Declaration, in way to the half century of the First Earth Summit
Between 5 and 16 June 1972, on the initiative of Sweden, the “First Earth Summit” was held, together with the UN, also known as the “United Nations Conference on the Human Environment”. At this meeting the “Declaration of Stockholm” was emitted, comparable with the Declaration of Human Rights, oriented [...]
The Green Climate Fund, a mechanism against climate change GalleryThe Green Climate Fund, a mechanism against climate change
Climate Change, COP and Climate Conferences, COP25 Chile 2019, Energy, Environment, Forest, Global Warming, Green Climate Fund, Hurricanes, Paris Agreement, Sustainability, Uncategorized
The Green Climate Fund, a mechanism against climate change
The Green Climate Fund (GCF), was created to finance projects, programs, policies and other preventive activities or consequences of the effects of climate change, to support developing countries. Its official headquarters is in Incheon, South Korea. The GCF has been devised as the main long-term financial instrument under the [...]
The carbon footprint, what it is and how it is measured
Definition of carbon footprint The carbon footprint is the impact that human activity leaves on the environment, that is, the mark that originates a person, product or organization on the planet as a result of their daily actions, totalized according to parameters of carbon dioxide emissions ( CO2) and [...]
Is the Earth a theme park owned by Homo sapiens?
Homo sapiens were the last to arrive at this beautiful paradise called Earth, our spherical blue and green house that floats and travels with its exuberant vital load in the dark cosmos. With our newly opened intelligence, skills, natural curiosity, and exclusive existential consciousness, we are amazed to see [...]
Summary of the Global Climate Action Summit, the conference that brought good news
The GCAS2018 was staged in San Francisco, California, between September 12 and 14. In a way, it was the prelude to the COP24, Katowice, Poland, December 3 to 14. The Summit was planned based on five key platforms: healthy energy systems, inclusive economic growth, sustainable communities, land and ocean [...]
The soils pollution
The soil, origin, nature and degradation The soil is the surface of the earth’s crust that covers a large part of the continents and islands of the world. It has been formed thanks to the action of abiotic and biotic components for hundreds of millions of years by the [...]
How we affect our environment in nine different ways
Environmental pollution, pollutants and endangered species Environmental pollution, in the classical concept, occurs when certain elements that cause harmful effects accumulate in quantities that nature cannot recycle. A contaminant is a substance that is found in a medium to which it does not belong or that does so at [...]
The Homo predator in Borneo
“Borneo, a place where birds no longer sing and orangutans are homeless.” Alex Shoumatoff “Man has made the Earth hell for animals.” Arthur Schopenhauer Those of us who belong to the species Homo sapiens owe our name and surname to our two main characteristics: we are human, [...]
Solar energy, a big bet against climate change
Solar energy is one that uses light or heat from the sun to generate electricity or produce heat. Photovoltaic solar panels convert sunlight into electricity through a process called photoelectric. There are millions of people who already use electricity generated by solar energy. The world is aware of the [...]
Why is there so much talk about energy and climate change?
On this planet, the only one with life that we know, the wide biodiversity that inhabits it is born, lives, grows, eats, sleeps, reproduces, attacks, escapes and dies using energy in all these stages. We live in a wonderful planet in which biochemical energy differentiates us from all other [...]
Traces of the Anthropocene
Two and a half million years ago the Homo habilis, sitting on the wooden log of a tree fallen in the Olduvai gorge, Tanzania, Africa, did not take his eyes off something that with his clumsy hands he was handling. They were a pair of pebbles and with them, [...]
Single-use plastics at amazing levels of contamination GallerySingle-use plastics at amazing levels of contamination
Anthropocene, Carbon Footprint, Climate Change, COP and Climate Conferences, COP25 Chile 2019, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Green Climate Fund, Paris Agreement, Pollution, Soils, Sustainability, Water
Single-use plastics at amazing levels of contamination
Today Earth Day is celebrated, as it has been done every April 22, since 1970. This year the theme that has been chosen is that of contamination with plastics due to concern about the subject. Plastic pollution is the accumulation of products of this material in the environment, which [...]
The electric car and the thriller of the year 2020 GalleryThe electric car and the thriller of the year 2020
Air, Anthropocene, Climate Change, COP and Climate Conferences, COP25 Chile 2019, Electric Cars, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Paris Agreement, Pollution, Solar Energy, Sustainability
The electric car and the thriller of the year 2020
By using clean energy instead of fossil fuel, the electric car is the most effective tool to meet the main objective of the Paris Agreement, such as limiting the increase in global warming to 2°C from its pre-industrial level. For this, the transcendental document indicates that greenhouse gas (GHG) [...]
You will not kill a tree
A couple of nights ago I was watching with my wife one of these homes improving and decoration series. I was half sleepy when suddenly I was startled to see a big lot full of logs. Obviously, it was not the first time I saw something like that. The [...]